In her first segment as a ’60 Minutes’ contributor, Oprah Winfrey conducts a focus group featuring Trump supporters and opponents.
For her debut segment on 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey conducted a focus group evenly divided between Trump supporters and Trump opponents.
The results weren’t pretty.The meeting was conducted in Michigan, and despite the hope that it would demonstrate the truthfulness of the expression “West Michigan nice,” it failed to bridge the seemingly intractable gap between the two groups. This may have been a microcosm of what’s going on among the electorate, but it was telling.
The group included voters of different genders, races and ethnicities. Each was paid $100 for their troubles, which goes to show that Trump is indeed helping to reduce unemployment. It probably won’t come as a surprise that his biggest supporters were mostly middle-aged white guys.
“I love it!” one said about the first eight months of Trump’s presidency. “Every day I love him more and more. I love what he’s doing to this country.”
“We wanted someone to go in and flip the tables,” another chimed in. “He’s speaking for people who are sitting at home in Iowa, or Oklahoma, or Montana that just want to say it that way.”
Several women begged to disagree. “I feel like he’s a horrible president,” one said despairingly. “When he’s off the teleprompter, he makes me sick to my stomach.”
“He’s terrible,” an African-American man agreed.
One woman who described herself as a lifelong Republican recounted how difficult her life became when she decided to vote for Hillary instead.
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